Rail-joint



L EIBNER. RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION HLED FEB- 27, 1920.

L. EIBNER.

RAH. JOINT. APPLICAHON FILED FEB. 22. 920.

Patented J1me 1,

2 SHEETSSHEE L ouisz Eibner OFFICE.

LOUISYZIEIBNER, or WELLINGTON, OHIO.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1920.

Application filed February 27, 1920. Serial No. 361,748.

Ohio, have invented new and useful 1m provements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has reference to a means for connecting the meeting ends of railway rails.

An object of the invention is to produce a means for connecting the confronting ends of two railway rails that is in the nature of a chair, but which is provided with separable parts easily assembled and effectively secured to hold thereon the rails and to prevent the vertical or lateral movement as well as to allow only a limited longitudinal movement, incident to expansion and contraction, of said rails.

A further object of the invention is to produce a means for connecting two railway rails, comprising a chair, made up of two coengaging parts or members, one of said members having integrally formed thereon a short rail section against which the ends of the rails proper abut, and the said rail section having means thereon which coengage with means in the second chair section for locking the section against outward spreading, additional means being provided for holding the sections against longitudinal movement, while bolts pass through both of the sections and through the webs of the rails for securing the rails on the chair.

The foregoing objects, and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, may be accomplished by a simple construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts such as is disclosed by the drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of two rails connected in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view approximately on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view approximately on the line 83 of Fig. 1.

Fig.4 is a sectional view approximately on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the chair members or sections.

Fig. 6 is a similar view of the co-acting chair member or section.

Fig. 7 is a similar view of the key member employed for connecting the base portions of the sections to hold the same against longitudinal movement. I

In the drawings the numeral 10 designates the confronting end portions of two rails which are of the ordinary construction.

My improved means for connecting the rails is in the nature of a chair, comprising two members or sections.

One of the sections is indicated by the numeral l1 and includes a base 12 which is of a less width than one-half of the width of the base flange of rails 10. On the outer edge of the base 12 is an upturned angularly directed flange 13 that terminates in a fish plate 14. The plate is preferably centrally grooved longitudinally. The member 12 is centrally formed with a short rail section or block 15. The head of this railsection projects a distance above the upper edge of the plate 14 so that the same will be brought flush with the heads of the rails 10. The outer web portion of the rail section 15has thereon spaced lugs 16 and 17. The confronting edges of the lugs 16 and 17 are beveled inwardly, and the space between the lugs is wedge shaped. The plate, at the opposite side of the integral rail section 15 has bolt openings 18 therethrough. The base 12, at the center thereof, directly below the base flange of the short rail section 15, is formed with a laterally projecting portion in the nature of a rectangular extension 19. This extension is centrally formed with a notch 20, and the inner wall of the said notch is preferably provided with a V-shaped depression 21.

The rails are seated on the base of the section 11 so that the confronting ends thereof will be brought next to the ends of the short rail portion 15 thereof. The second chair section 22 is then arranged next to the rails and connected to the section 11. The second chair section 22 is in the nature of an angle plate having its vertical flange, 23 providing its inner face with a spaced longitudinally disposed wedge lug 24. The section 22 is moved longitudinally so that the wedge lug 24 is brought to engagement between the lugs 16 and 17 This also brings openings 25 in the vertical plate or flange of the member 22 opposite the bolt openings in thesection 11 and in alinement with the bolt openings in the webs of the rails, 10. Through these alining openings pass the usual bolts 26 that are engaged by the usual nuts 27. The member 22 has its horizontal flange inturned to provide a base plate 28. This base plate is of a less width than one-half the width of the base flanges of the rails 10 and is provided with a substantially rectangnlar extension 29. This extension has a central notch 30 which'has its inner wall centrally formed with a V-shaped depression 81. The notch 30 is designed to register with thevnotch of the section 11, and in the pocket provided'by the said notches there is inserted a key 32, which is of a shape to correspond with that of the pocket provided by the notches and their depressions.

Having thus described theinvention, what I claim is':- i

1. In combination with the confronting ends of two rails, and tie "which underlies the rails; of a chair comprising two sections each of an'angle formation and including a straight base on which the rails rest and which base is of a less width than one-half the width of the rail base, said base portions being centrally provided with extensions which abut said extensions having registering notches which form a pocket, and a key seated in the pocket.

2. In combination with the confronting ends of two rails and a tie which underlies the rails; of a chair'comprising two sections each of an angle formation and including a straight base on which the rails rest, a key member seated in the base portions of the chair sections and held in engagement therewith by contact with the tie, a rail block integrally formed on one of the chair sections, interengaging means between the said block and the "second c'ha'ir' section, and securing means passing transversely through the chair sections and through the rails. I

3. In combination with the confronting ends of two rails, a tie which underlies "the rails; of a chair comprising two sections, each lncluding-an angle body portlon and a fiat base on which the rails rest, a key me'mber centrally seated in the base portions ofa wedge lug-on the secondchair-section de-' signed to be received between the lugs'of the rail block, and securing means passingtransversely through the chair sections and through the rails.

lntes't-imony whereof I-aflix my signature.

LOUISZ EI-B'NER. 

